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Backstage at "Guys and Dolls," I overheard an actress ask, in a clever double-entendre, a current Pudding actor, "Do you like doing it better with men or women?" He answered, offhandedly, "I don't know. Let's give you a professional director and voice coach...
...born a few days after Hitler marched into Poland, and as a boy I absorbed, by moral osmosis and overheard conversation, some of the lessons of the time--for example, lessons taught by Auschwitz and Josef Mengele...
...series, featuring teenage star Mickey Rooney, sage father Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) and charming mother (Fay Holden), Mayer was defining American society according to his fantasies. He took his responsibility for American values so seriously that when Rooney, a precocious womanizer and partygoer, got out of hand, L.B. was overheard screaming at him, "You're Andy Hardy! You're the United States! You're Stars and Stripes! You're a symbol! Behave yourself...
...Luther King Jr. Reuther was one of the few non-African Americans invited to speak at the March on Washington in 1963. A favorite anecdote concerned his introduction to the crowd. Standing close to the podium were two elderly women. As he was introduced, one of the women was overheard asking her friend, "Who is Walter Reuther?" The response: "Walter Reuther? He's the white Martin Luther King...
...night that this reviewer saw Annie, the show was a hit with the entire audience, especially children. The lobby of the Wang Center was filled with three-foot tall knockouts, dressed in their own Mary Janes and best dresses. A few enterprising young gentlemen could be overheard trying to pick up some of these soon-to-be leading ladies, but most were too busy tap-dancing like Molly or gustily singing, "Tomorrow, tomorrow, the sun'll come out tomorrow" to even notice...